Northern Premier League

LIONS LEFT BEMUSED AT FAILURE TO WIN AWAY

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
28 August 2022

STALYBRIDGE C 0 GUISELEY 0
By Keith Trudgeon

A COMBINATION of dogged defending and the woodwork helped Celtic to a second home clean sheet in a row, and sent a puzzled Guisely back over the Pennines wondering how they had failed to win. The Yorkshire side had seven shots on target and hit the goal frame twice, but with keeper Greg Hall solid both in shot stopping and cross taking and the Celtic back four seemingly content to soak up the pressure they ended the afternoon frustrated.
John Johnston and Lewis Hay had drawn fine stops from Hall, the one from Johnston a superb acrobatic e...

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